(1) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(2) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(3) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(4) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
(5) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
(6) Instead, she has used the take-no-prisoners bossiness that for years served as a distraction from her day job to develop a second career.
(7) Kate Winslet pops up as Jeanine Matthews, the aggy bossy boots on hand to keep the population down.
(8) In support of his new policy, Bossi explained that a war had been fought in Europe – monetary and non-military, but nevertheless a war – and Italy had lost.
(9) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
(10) "Whoever is behind this attack had a message and it has been heard," said Mary Bossis, professor of international security at the University of Piraeus.
(11) Fat chicks deserve that, too.’” I probably would have finessed it a bit if I’d been sober, but way to lean in, bossy, drunk past-Lindy!
(12) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
(13) Earlier this year Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg launched a campaign to stamp out "bossy", claiming that it discourages young women from developing leadership skills.
(14) I'm the boss," announced Beyoncé in one of Sandberg's anti-bossy TV adverts.
(15) At Company X we had a joke that there were only two reviews for women – you are either too reticent or you are too bossy – no middle ground,” said one respondent .
(16) Confident women at work are still labeled "bossy" and "bitchy", to their own detriment – unless they can "turn it off" .
(17) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(18) "I'm not saying I'm a shrinking violet – I'm not – I've been bossy all my life.
(19) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(20) She, like Abramson, was criticised for poor communication skills ("very difficult to talk to") , her bossiness ( "authoritarian" ) and her brusque nature ( "Putin-like" ).
Tossy
Definition:
(a.) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace.
Example Sentences:
(1) We give a preliminary report of ten patients with fresh dislocations of the acromioclavicular joint (Tossy III).
(2) A series of 20 patients was treated for a complete acromioclavicular dislocation (Tossy III).
(3) A differentiation of various grades of Tossy lesions is possible.
(4) The diagnosis of a complete acromio-clavicular dislocation (Tossy III) is an indication for a surgical repair.
(5) In a pilot study specificity and sensibility of ultrasonics on Tossy III lesions were tested, and that in 20 cases of guaranteed intact acromioclavicular joints and 22 cases of radiologically diagnosed Tossy III lesions with a following operative control.
(6) Good results were obtained from conservative treatment of Tossy-I injuries.
(7) From the result of this study, the author concludes that Tossy's Grade III, complete dislocation, should be classified into two subtypes and surgical treatment should be considered for Type B or complete dislocation.
(8) Evaluation of the ultrasound findings makes classification of the grade of severity of injury according to Tossy much easier.
(9) The classification of the acromio-clavicular dislocations from grade I to grade III according to Tossy is proved.
(10) 178 patients with a fresh acromio-clavicular dislocation (Typ Tossy II and III) were treated at the BG-Unfallklinik Tübingen from 1970 to 1987 by suturing the ligaments, inserting pins across the joint and tension wire bending.
(11) In old cases with Tossy III dislocation of the acromio-clavicular joint an oblique osteotomy combined with the reduction of the clavicle is recommended as a method of choice.
(12) In the years 1987-1989 40 patients suffering AC-separation were treated (34 Tossy III separations, 4 Tossy II separations, 2 Tossy I separations).
(13) 60 out of 69 (87%) patients were reexaminated after operation for a trauma of the actomioclavicular articulation of type TOSSY III.
(14) The acromioclavicular joint plate according to Rahmanzadeh allows the safe retention of the reset acromioclavicular joint in stage Tossy III and in exceptional cases also in stage Tossy II traumata when simultaneous early functional post-treatment is done from the first postoperative day on.
(15) The most widely used classification of these injuries is the one of Tossy, Tossy III and Tossy II injuries are indications for operative treatment.
(16) From 1979 to 1989, 46 patients were operated on for luxation of the acromioclavicular joint (Tossy III) in the department of trauma surgery of the Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Eisenstadt.
(17) An operation of the AC-Tossy III separation on patients beyond their 4. decade should be well considered.
(18) 45 patients were followed up who had undergone surgery because of acromioclavicular separation of the types TOSSY II and TOSSY III during 1983 to 1985.
(19) However, surgery in the first place is recommended, when it comes to Tossy-II and Tossy-III serverities (ligament suture and temporary arthrodesis of the AC joint), as this has proved to yield results which were superior to secondary plastic ligament repair.
(20) The authors describe the surgical procedure and report on the outcome of 39 Tossy II and III injuries treated in this way.